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Welcome, 8th graders, to your United States history class! At the start of each week, I'll be sending out emails with essential information for the upcoming week. I forgot to send this out during week one. These emails will include a link to our lesson/unit webpage, where you'll find details about the week's homework assignments and helpful study guide links.
Students will be switching between science and social studies every other week. Parents, you can expect to hear from me on a bi-weekly basis to keep you in the loop. To wrap up each week, we'll have an assessment to gauge our understanding of the material. This week's assessment will be a Socratic Seminar and information will be link in this week's webpage.
This week we will be focusing on Lesson 33 in TCI- US Foreign Policy in a Global Age. The main focus of the week will be a Remembrance of 9/11. Students will also participate in small Socratic seminar groups to debate current policy issues dealing with foreign policy issues America has faced since the end of the Cold War. The essential question for the week will be How well have U.S. foreign policy decisions met the challenges of the global age?
Learning Objectives
Remembrance of 9/11
I can explain how past events, people, and ideas have influenced and shaped current U.S. foreign policy.
How well have U.S. foreign policy decisions met the challenges of the global age?
I will be able to analyze, recognize, and evaluate patterns of continuity and change over time and contextualization of historical events.
Presidential Diplomacy:
Other things from past years- Diplomacy -
Hand out or divide class into other speeches to read about:
Answer the following questions in your notes:
What was the main foreign policy idea of the President Speech you read?
What year was this speech?
What was going on in US history at this time that they made the speech?
How was this speech different from the other two Presidents you read at the start of class?
How was this speech similar to either of the other two Presidents you read at the start of class?
How can this teach us about "how past events, people, and ideas have influenced and shaped current U.S. foreign policy?"
As a group read your President's speech. After reading the speech answer the questions as a group on a google doc shared. Divide up the questions on who will present what.
Genocide
Read and watch video Ten Steps of Genocide:
Read Rwanda in TCI Lesson 33 Explore
Watch video on Genocide
Questions at the end
What steps can we take as a country
Is it our job to interfere
What steps can you individually take to prevent this?
9/11-
https://www.911memorial.org/learn/students-and-teachers/lesson-plans/what-happened-911-part-i - Intro video
9/11 Seminar 911memorial.org/webinar.
Preview
https://www.911memorial.org/2023-anniversary-digital-learning-experience - 2023
https://www.911memorial.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/2022%20Viewing%20Guide%206-8.pdf -2022
https://www.911memorial.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/2021%20Viewing%20Guide%206-8.pdf -2021
https://www.911memorial.org/learn/students-and-teachers/webinar-stories - more stories
Students will discuss how lessons from 9/11 can be used to help them in their daily lives
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